Senior Doug Walter led the men's track team to an overwhelming victory, 104 2/3 to 40 1/3, over a young and inexperienced Cornell team Saturday, in a dual meet in Ithaca, N.Y.

But the intentions of Coach Harry Groves were not to destroy the Big Red and former Groves assistant Lou Duessing, who is now in his first year as coach at Cornell. Instead the older and more talented Lions won all but three events in a very convincing fashion as many of the athletes used the meet as a tune-up for future competitions.

"The team performed well," Groves said. "Our objective was to win the meet, and we came out of it with a lot of first and second places."

Walter was the big winner of the day at Cornell's Spartan Hall. He not only won the open mile with a time of 4:12.93, but he won the 800-meter race as well in 1:54.9.

Ricardo Hall's performance in the triple jump cracked the Penn State record books with a jump of 51'5 3/4". Hall also won the long jump with a jump of 22'9 3/4". Penn State's Antonio Davis finished second in both event.

All-American Phil Caraher had little difficulty winning the shot put competition. The fourth-place finisher in the NCAAs last year won with a 60'2 1/2 " throw.

But next week, his competition will be more fierce as he and 18 other track athletes participate in the U.S. Air Invitational. At that meet, Caraher will go up against the nation's best shot putters in a field that includes former Penn State thrower C.J. Hunter, the NCAA champion last year.

Other winners included Aidan O'Reilly, who ran the 1000 in 2:29.31, John Strange with a 49.6 in the 400, and Brian Kelly with a 1:05 in the 500-meter run.

Also, Mark Algeri won the pole vault; Mike Adams ran the 200 in 22.77; Mitch Steter won the high jump with a leap of 6'6"; and Jerry Robins won the 55-meter hurdles in 7.71.

Cornell, representing the Heptagonal Conference, which includes all of the Ivy League schools, only won three events.

Saturday's meet marked the first meeting between Groves and Duessing in track competition and both coaches enjoyed the meet despite the lopsided score.